It was a calm and beautiful summer's day. I was doing the regular summer thing to do in suburbia, which was avoiding anything to do with the outside, because numbing your brain with video games was a much easier prospect, when I was...

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For my 60th birthday, I took by son and daughter and my daughter’s fiancé, Doug, to Zambia Africa for a walking safari. My son, daughter and I had all been out on trails before with the Wilderness Leadership...

I was 19 years old and working part time nights as a bus boy at Max's Kansas City which was a major gathering spot for musicians, poets, and artists like Robert Rauschenberg, John Chamberlain, Jasper Johns, William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg...

In 2012 I met the love of my life, my husband Aden. And last July I was faced with the ever difficult task of finding the PERFECT birthday gift for him while being depressingly broke. He made me swear not to buy him anything, so...

As I layed looking up to the street lamp in the middle of a parking lot. Bleeding from my chest, from the gun shot feeling no pain..... I asked myself, "maybe I should stay still Until someone comes to help!" Then reality set in,...

November 25, 2002- The one of the worst nightmares happened to two wonderful parents. Their little girl was hospitilized, in Mexico City, in the hospital named Hospital General Siglo 21. The little girl was just 4 years old when this happened....

DAY 1: It is Monday, 6:45 PM, my phone begins to blow up with the all too familiar text message sounds. I love my phone. It’s actually more like an addiction. It’s a daily struggle that I manage one day at a time. I...